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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. AntDB vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. RDFox

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gbase.cnwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
DeveloperAlibabaAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedFirebird FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Oxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20042017
Current release5.0.0, January 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c6.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C, Java, PythonC++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL2016 compliantyesStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesRoles, resources, and access types
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBAntDBFirebirdGBaseRDFox
Specific characteristicsAntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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Competitive advantagesHTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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Typical application scenariosAs the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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Key customersChina Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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Market metricsMore than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCertificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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